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by yeukhon 3814 days ago
Heroku offers more integration addon/services than App Engine ever does. Heroku was definitely invented to compete with App Engine. Google did not have a Cloud Platform at the beginning for you to create and integrate MySQL as a service with App Engine app.
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Other way around, actually. AppEngine came out in April 2008; Heroku in November 2007:

https://web.archive.org/web/20071105005403/http://heroku.com...

It's fairly likely they were working on them in parallel without knowledge of each other, though.